There are 7 essential elements to deeply engage and grip your audience as you tell your story. Regardless of what type of media you’re using to tell your story, these essential elements will help leave your audience at the edge of their seats, craving to come back and see what […]
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There can be a fine line between weather and landscape photography and videos. And it’s a line that I’ve both toed and crossed many times. When I first started storm chasing, the goal was simple: capture some of Mother Nature’s most powerful, yet beautiful creations. Interestingly, when I shifted from […]
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Weather apps are one of the most powerful tools to use in your landscape photography and travel videos. To demonstrate, let’s go back to my storm chasing days in Oklahoma. You get up in the morning and the day looks ripe for tornadoes. It’s a rare high risk day – […]
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As a former storm chaser, weather and meteorology have greatly influenced my career, values, and philosophy. Nowhere is that more true than in my photography. Even though I was only a hobbyist photographer at the time, storm chasing was clearly the turning moment when I realized my photography skills were […]
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As many of you know, chasing tornadoes and severe storms during my tenure as a meteorology student at the University of Oklahoma heavily influenced both my photography style and my quest for adventure. As a former storm chaser, I believe that there is never a bad time for landscape photography. […]
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The Southern Great Plains are well-known for their wild, unstable, and sometimes violent weather. Aptly known as Tornado Alley, the region sees more tornadoes and severe weather than anywhere else in the world. Its proximity to both the frigid air of the Rocky Mountains and the warm, tropical waters of […]
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COVID-19 maps and geographic information systems (GIS) are proving to be one of the best tools we have to fight the ongoing pandemic. In addition to being incredibly versatile, maps are easy to understand and can display so much more information than any bar or line chart can. This characteristic […]
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During a monsoon storm last week, I observed evidence of a possible tornado. Today, we will look at some of the data from the storm. I built weather station and data logger at my house that logs data every 5 minutes. While I have plans to put a network of […]
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The summer monsoon kicked into high gear last night as a wild night of dust storms, flash floods, and severe weather ripped through the greater Phoenix area. During the storm, I became very suspicious that a small tornado had hit my house, so after a bit of clean up this […]
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It is one of the most unforgettable sights you’ll ever see rolling across the deserts. From afar, it looks just like a low cloud formation at the base of a thunderstorm, but as you get closer, the area between the ground and the base of the thunderstorm begins to turn […]
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The storm chasing season tried very hard to get started yesterday, but it just wasn’t meant to be. All of the ingredients were in place, but a deck of cirrus clouds (which limited instability by keeping surface temperatures down), strong cap and weak forcing on the warm front and dryline […]
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MOORE, OK — May 3rd, 1999. It’s a date that anyone with ties to Oklahoma knows very well. If you don’t know, an F5 tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma that day, packing winds of 318 miles per hour (no, that’s not a type-o), which to this day remains the strongest wind […]
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